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LONG-TAILED POLYPLECTRON. 



Polyplectron chalcurum TEMMINOK. 



PLATE VII. 



Eperonmer chalcnre, Polyplectron chalcurum, Temminck, 

 Planches Colorizes, 519. 



THIS bird differs from its congeners in wanting the 

 ocelteted spots on the various parts of the plumage, 

 which is also entirely of a more sombre shade, and 

 in the form of the tail, which becomes lengthened 

 and runs into the form of that of Argus. Temminck 

 is the only ornithologist who has described and figur- 

 ed it, and the specimen in the Parisian Museum, 

 which served for the copy, he tells us, was unique. 

 The head, neck, breast, belly, and wings, are of an 

 umber brown ; the back, greater coverts, and scapu- 

 lars are of a reddish umber, having numerous waves 

 or crosses of black ; the tail, as we mentioned, is 

 much longer than in any of the others, and has not 

 the two ranges, as it were, of feathers, is brown, 

 with green and violet reflections, and is mottled over 

 with irregular spots of black. Each tarsus is armed 

 with two sharp spurs. The total length of the spe- 



